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is, next to serviis, the most common member of the genus, oc- 

 curring on ferns and other vegetation in dense wet hammocks 

 and sometimes beaten from the black mangrove along the bay 

 beach. It is a neotropical species, known from this country- 

 only from Florida, Georgia and Texas, but found (Stal, 1872, 

 27) in Cuba, Mexico, Honduras and Colombia. The only 

 Georgia station reported is Thomasville, by Barber (1906, 

 259). 



92 (129). Euschistus crenator (Fabricius), 1794, 101. 



Obovate, or broadly ovate, small for the genus. Above grayish- 

 yellow, rather densely marked with reddish-fuscous punctures, these 

 aggregated along the side margins of pronotum ; scutellum and elytra 

 with numerous small smooth whitish spots; connexivum fuscous, the 

 middle of each segment with a pale spot; membrane grayish-brown with- 

 out fuscous spots ; under surface pale yellow ; legs yellow marked with 

 a few vague blackish dots ; ends of ventral incisures with a black point. 

 Head narrowed in front, its apex rounded; cheeks equalling tylus; third 

 joint of antennae nearly one-half longer than second. Pronotum with 

 front side margins slightly sinuate, their edges strongly crenate or sub- 

 serrate; humeri prominent, their tips acute or subspinose. Male genital 

 segment as in key. Length, 9 — 9.5 mm.; width, 5 — 5.5 mm. 



Duarte, Santo Domingo, July 21 (Barber). A West Indian 

 and South American species, known in the United States from 

 Florida, Texas, Arizona and California. While Van Duzee does 

 not give Florida in his Catalogue distributional notes, it is 

 recorded from that State by Uhler (1876, 286) and by Barber 

 (1914, 522), who states there is a specimen in the National 

 Museum from Dade City. Van Duzee (1907, 7) says that it 

 is not uncommon in Jamaica, where it occurs singly on bushes 

 and coarse weeds. 



93 (132). Euschistus crassus Dallas, 1851, 205. 



Broadly oval, subconvex above, strongly convex beneath. Above 

 grayish-yellow, marked with sparsely irregularly placed fuscous punc- 

 tures; antennae pale throughout; membrane as in key; connexivals fus- 

 cous, with a vague pale median spot; pronotum with a more or less 

 evident dull yellow smooth line between the humeri, the punctures be- 

 hind this more dense than elsewhere; under surface fuscous yellow; 

 thoracic pleura with numerous coarse black punctures; legs yellow, 

 thickly flecked with blackish dots. Head relatively narrow, its apex 

 rounded; tylus slightly longer than cheeks. Pronotum with front por- 

 tion strongly declivent, its side margins broadly concave, their edges 

 rather coarsely crenulate; humeri prominent, ending in short acute for- 

 ward and outward projecting spines; disk very unevenly punctate, with 



